I don’t know if I’d say that the concept of states rights is abandoned, though it does seem to be discussed less.
But it shouldn’t be only central or only federal, but rather a constant friction over where ones power begins and the other ends.
That friction we feel from it indicates that things are working. You wouldn’t feel that friction if any one side has all of the power. You’d hear grumbling, but there’d be no court cases about it, no decisions to be made, because the side with all of the power does the deciding.
Both systems, fully centralized and fully decentralized both are flawed, which is why we have the balance at all.
I think what’s happening is that the authoritarians in both sides of the political debate are heard more often and more loudly than before, so they of course want whatever will get them their goals. But the US is still the US, so I’m not sure what this article is even attempting to say? Less federal power? In certain areas, sure, but a EU of North America? That sounds terrible and isolating. It also seems like it would only feed the tribalism that seems to be everywhere.
I have to agree with your overall comment though. Travel, dispersed friends and families, etc guarantee we wouldn’t handle being split like the EU, and it’s crazy, IMHO, that the original author really sees so many differences between states that they outweigh the similarity of vision.
> Why is removing a feature better than letting run a bit slow?
If a restaurant runs out of food, there are gonna be some customers who would eat a turd sandwich, as long as they could eat something, but most customers would flip out and demand to know who would think shipping that out of the kitchen was okay.
Now the analogy isn't perfect, but I imagine there's a host of reasons around expectations of support and experience that Apple has no plans on addressing for those cases, and rather than having a lot of time wasted clogging support with something that will just frustrate the average customer regardless, better to leave the few complaints about why they can't have it, since after all, your complaint doesn't cost them a dime in potential support calls. Just a vague feeling like you're not getting everything you want for the price you're paying.
If you've ever been to Disneyland, you can see historically, the park is jam packed with people who have that same frustration, each a paying customer.
If my assumptions on their product calculus is correct, I know which of those options I'd choose, from a business perspective.
I'll be honest, I don't find the Platinum Rule at all a compelling argument against the Golden Rule. There are many cases of people in power claiming that their behavior is what the other person "really" wants (such as women "really" want to be treated poorly, or the slaves really prefer subservience as it's their destined station in life). And who am I to be able to speak about what someone else wants?
It's a full time job enough to figure out what I claim I want, or want in any given moment vs what I truly desire underneath the socially accepted artifice of what I "should" want or want long term. Trying to presume what others want is pointless, IMHO.
But I can do a little presumption and say that for the most part, people are pretty similar, and in those cases where I get it wrong, a mea culpa goes a long way to smooth out the differences.
Of course, as much as possible, I will try to customize based on what I think the other party may want, but that is fundamentally based upon my following the Golden Rule, and the Platinum Rule is just a refinement on that, not really a fundamental principle I can base my actions upon.
Of course, much of this may be a distinction without a difference in actual application :)
> such as women "really" want to be treated poorly
This depends how you define “poorly”. Some progressives would say all sex work is harmful to women. Some sex workers who are women would ask how you dare try to rob them of their agency.
It’s not that simple.
> or the slaves really prefer subservience as it's their destined station in life
Again, this depends on how you define “slavery”. To some, all factory workers are slaves in an evil Capitalist machine, subservient to the guy with the capital; all the guy did was start the company, right? But to the factory worker, he might be very happy with the opportunity to work and provide for his family, and for a multitude of reasons might prefer this to whatever else a typical Socialist might believe all people should want to do with their time.
I agree, which is why I think it's pointless to try to conjecture on what other people want, and jump straight to how I would want to be treated. And of course, even that is tricky, but it's by far a more reliable set of information than guessing the myriad of preferences any given person may have at any given moment.
Again, there's still the possibility of getting it wrong, but if I don't know myself as well as anyone possibly could, how can I think that guessing at what others want is going to somehow be more reliable?
So yes, it's not that simple, but the Golden rule is about as simple as you can reliably go on. Anything else seems to me to be bordering on the presumption of omniscience.
Wow, I have to give kudos to the natgeo web dev/team that implemented this. This was a flawless read on mobile, and that's a rarity for me anytime a site tries to get fancy, the scrolljacking and anti patterns make it just workable enough to be frustrating.
This took some skill, and a mandate from someone to be not just device friendly, but as close to a native feel I've seen possible with web views. Kudos.
I feel like a shill with how often I recommend it, but Keyboard Maestro [0] seems like it would handle almost everything, from window management to all sorts of system automation.
The kinds of things I can execute with a key command is amazing. Sometimes, I'll just write a quick task, like realigning titles across a set of Keynote slides or very specific text manipulation operations.
Seriously, best money I've ever spent on software (if I had to go without any tool, from Sublime Text to Photoshop to Logic Pro X, KM would be the one I couldn't live without, and other than Logic, I actually use the others day to day for work, and I'd still give them up to keep KM).
Isn't this akin to complaining if people for access to tools for drawing, that there would be a lot of fruit bowls out there?
The fact is, cameras on cell phones have brought artistic tools to an incredibly large set of people, and of course there is to be expected alot of mimicry. But lots of originality can come through.
Browse through Dribbble sometimes. There can be plenty of creativity in remixes and covers of others work.
I imagine if someone built Instagram for ancient Greek art and analysed it they could rediscover things like the Golden Ratio. And those Doric columns... all the same.
And with photography much of it isn't mimicry per se so much as the fact that humans find a lot of similar things interesting even if they pay no attention to other people's artwork at all. Even if entirely uninterested in other people's travel shots, people often find the rowing boat trip they took with their partner interesting enough to record a picture of their partner taken from said rowing boat, and so we end up with a lot of shots of partners sitting in the prow which can't really not be compositionally similar to other shots of other partners sitting in other boats on other rivers.
You hit the nail on the head why I had gone from MacPorts to Homebrew, and for me, the extra need for sudo was just an additional pain point.
Your last point brings up an interesting question in my mind regarding Apple's intentions for the CLI. On the one hand, they seem to care enough to add features here and there to Terminal, but then when you consider that the tools have basically zero chance of upgrades being incorporated for licensing reasons, I wonder if they plan to even have a stance on package managers, or if they are completely fine with that being purely in user land.
The entire CLI experience on macOS concerns me in as much as the OOTB set of tools will continue to work, but how much more fragmented will the experience get? There's already a good chance at running across some shell code online that requires bash 4 or relies on a newer gnu version of a tool.
Maybe this long tail of developers is too niche for Apple, but I imagine it's still important to many of their developers in some way.
In my mind, this seems like the most reasoned middle ground I've encountered.
I'm a committed carnivore, but I do have ethical qualms with animal death, and if there are options that have negligible differences in experience (cost/convenience/taste), I'll take it, but as you mentioned, there are small, but concrete ways to improve things without going whole hog into avoiding all animal products or having to wait for big companies to adopt those options.
(As an aside, does anyone know the reasoning behind avoiding honey? I've even seen a software license that forbade it's use in any product that may directly or indirectly use or industrialize animal products, including honey).
In practise, the answer is because it's a form of exploitation and exploitation is considered Always Bad by the VS. It's probably easier to explain this to people than to try and nuance (ie soften) the stance. Not a criticism.
I have to agree. A dock or pad with a cable or two and an inductive charging mat would be ideal. I like my setup, but it'd be much easier to remember to charge my AirPods if I could just place them on a pad, or just casually laying my phone down, and still getting a charge, but having the option of a cable for the fast charge and being able to charge and use simultaneously.
As far as logic goes, I totally agree, but personal preference nit pick, from a code writer and reader perspective, I think all subproperty access (`hero.acceleration.x`) could be cached to a variable, or just operate on plain variables and assign property access after mutations and only manipulate objects as needed.
It makes the code easier to write and read, IMHO, and I believe older engines had infinitesimal changes in performance with updating objects, so it's more of a habit and code clarity thing for me.
Of course, that's far less important than the fact that the logic is clear and concise, especially after learning JS in a week :)
Both systems, fully centralized and fully decentralized both are flawed, which is why we have the balance at all.
I think what’s happening is that the authoritarians in both sides of the political debate are heard more often and more loudly than before, so they of course want whatever will get them their goals. But the US is still the US, so I’m not sure what this article is even attempting to say? Less federal power? In certain areas, sure, but a EU of North America? That sounds terrible and isolating. It also seems like it would only feed the tribalism that seems to be everywhere.
I have to agree with your overall comment though. Travel, dispersed friends and families, etc guarantee we wouldn’t handle being split like the EU, and it’s crazy, IMHO, that the original author really sees so many differences between states that they outweigh the similarity of vision.